Arch supporter



J. A. HUGUS ARCH SUPPORTER Filed April 1923 Patented Jan. 20, 1925..

UNITED STATES JAMES A. HUGUS, OF FORT SCOTT, KANSAS.

ARCH SUPPORTER.

Application filed April 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns A. HUoUs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Scott, in the county of Bourbon and I State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Arch Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is to provide an arch supporter for 'use in boots and shoes to support the arch, the said supporter being simple and inexpensive and durable in construction and being in virtue of said construction resilient throughout its length and flexible as Well throughout its 1 length, and adapted to last for an indefinite period of time without diminution of its supporting capacity.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specfiication Figure l is a top plan view of the arch supporter constituting one embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 is a cross-section of the supporter, taken in the plane indicated by the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the sup porter.

Figure 4 is a perspective showing the general appearance of the supporter.

Figures 5 and 6 are views of a modification hereinafter explicitly described.

Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 4, to which reference will first be made.

Among other elements the supporter comprises rigid end members 1 and 2, respectively, each of which is preferably, though not necessarily, provided with an aperture 3 to contribute to the facility with which the supporter can be secured in working position in a boot or shoe. The said rigid end members 1 and 2 are preferably of metal, and they are associated with a spacing strip 4 and arched resilient supporting strips 5. The said strips 4 and 5 are preferably of thin steel, and all are connected at their ends by rivets 6 or other appropriate means to the end members 1 and 2. It Will also be noticed that the spacing strip 4 is shorter 1923. Serial No. 630,950.

than the strip 5, and consequently said strip 4 will serve to hold the end members 1 and 2 apart and in such relation that the strips 5 will remain arched and will render the supporter flexible or resilient practically throughout its length. It will also be appreciated that notwithstanding its simplicity the supporter will be possessed of flexibility or resiliency throughout its length for an indefinite period of time and notwithstanding the supporter may be subjected during such period of time to tlieiisage to which arch supporters in boots and shoes are ordinarily subjected.

Manifestly in the practical use of my novel supporter, pressure imposed on the resilient arched strips 5 will tend to stretch the straight or substantially straight and short strip 4, and the yielding arched support will be afforded by the buckled strips 5, the strip 4 precluding movement of either of the end members 1 or 2 in a direction away from the other.

In the modification shown in Figures 5 and 6, the ri id end members 1 and 2 are associated with a spacing strip 4* and an arched resilient supporting strip 5*, said strips 43 and 5 being arranged in the same vertical plane, as shown, and their end portions being connected to the end members 1 and 2 through the medium of rivets 6*. This embodiment of the invention is advantageous because of its simplicity and inexpensiveness.

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiments of my invention in order to impart a full, clear and exact understanding of the said embodiments. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to the specific construction and relative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various changes and modifications may be made such as fall within the scope of my invention as defined in my appended claim.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, 1s:-

An arch supporter comprising end members in spaced relation, resilient means connected to the end members and arched longitudinally intermediate of said members, and a member arranged below the arched portion I of the resilient means and connecting the end members; the portion of the said connecting member between the end members being shorter than the arched portion of the resilient means, the resilient means bei 11;;- formed by strips attached to the end members on each side of the connecting member.

In testimony whereof l afiix my signature.

JAMES A. I-IUGUS. 

